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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 31, 2013, 9:56 PM CDT for McLean County, Muhlenberg County, Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2013, 9:56 PM CDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2013, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 684 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 787 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 31, 9:46 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 31, 9:46 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 739 PM CDT THU OCT 31 2013 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-020045- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 739 PM CDT THU OCT 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. A BRIEF TORNADO OR TWO CANNOT BE RULED OUT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE PREVALENT WITH MOST STORMS. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WILL BE EAST AT AROUND 50 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AROUND THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION HAS BEEN REQUESTED TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF THE REGION.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken | 40 min |
| Oct 31, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 37 min |
| Oct 31, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 30 min |
| Oct 31, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves | 39 min |
| Oct 31, 8:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken | 37 min |
| Oct 31, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union | 34 min |
| Oct 31, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall | 51 min |
| Oct 31, 8:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, McCracken | 33 min |
| Oct 31, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 23 min |
| Oct 31, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 37 min |
| Oct 31, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 31 min |
| Oct 31, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall, Trigg | 34 min |
| Oct 31, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Trigg | 36 min |
| Oct 31, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 39 min |
| Oct 31, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 30 min |
| Oct 31, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski | 24 min |
| Oct 31, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson | 37 min |
| Oct 31, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander | 31 min |
| Oct 31, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Johnson, Saline, Union, Williamson | 48 min |
| Oct 31, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson | 25 min |
| Oct 31, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Johnson, Massac, Pope | 27 min |
| Oct 31, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 29 min |
| Oct 31, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi, Scott | 34 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.